To improve fluency, learners should move beyond memorizing words and train themselves to access words quickly and appropriately in contexts When learning a second language (L2), many are likely ...

Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights. Requires districts to provide core ...

English is widely spoken across the globe. It is almost everywhere in schools, workplaces or while travelling. But people ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

Learning a new language represents one of the most rewarding intellectual challenges adults can pursue, offering cognitive benefits, career advantages, and deeper cultural connections that extend far ...

English Conversation Hour is an opportunity for all students, faculty and staff of the CWRU community interested in strengthening their proficiency in conversational English as well as those already ...

When words fail us, we curse. At least this is what the “poverty-of-vocabulary” (POV) hypothesis would have us believe. On this account, swearing is the “sign of a weak vocabulary”, a result of a lack ...

Reading fluency is the ability to read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression. Children, and people in general, must be able to read fluently in order to understand what they’re reading. This ...

In my conversations with business leaders around the world, I consistently hear the same phrase to describe what they want to achieve for their workforce: AI fluency. I often tell them that to achieve ...

When learning a second language (L2), many are likely familiar with the challenge of memorizing vocabulary, only to struggle with recalling and using it fluently in speech. Subscribe to our newsletter ...